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...very exact definition of this "normalcy," but almost everyone at Yale agrees that it has to be attained if the University is to save itself from the dilution of educational standards they forsee at universities that try to absorb huge future increases in college students...
...meet certain significant challenges. The dormitories are greatly overcrowded, many lecture rooms are bulging, and laboratory space is inadequate. The cost of new Houses merely to alleviate the present room shortage is staggering, and a campaign for funds to build enough new Houses, classrooms, laboratories, and another Lamont, would absorb the University's energies for at least the next ten years. Most crucial and important of all, the enrollment of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is growing smaller as fewer high-quality students choose the low-paid teaching profession...
...well as pay out 15% wage increases in the three years and three months since the last price hike. Even though St. Lawrence profits for the first half of 1955 were 37.3% ahead of the 1954 level, President P. M. Fox said: "We have gone beyond [our] ability to absorb increasing costs." At week's end the Justice Department, which has no jurisdiction over Canadian producers, asked U.S. newsprint manufacturers to confer with its trustbusters, warned pointedly: "Every effort will be made to prevent any joint efforts to increase prices" of domestic newsprint...
...continuous peace, one religion will eventually win the allegiance of the whole of mankind, Arnold J. Toynbee said last night in the fourth and last of the Hewitt Lectures at Sanders Theatre. The winning religion will not eliminate other religions, but absorb their best elements, he added...
...sodium rocket was not merely a beautiful and expensive firework; it had a serious scientific purpose: to help the Air Force's long-range study of the upper atmosphere. Part of the "air glow" (the faint glow of the night sky) comes from sodium atoms that absorb solar energy during the day. At night they give off this energy as yellow sodium light. Scientists do not know how high the "sodium layer" is. Nor do they know how the sodium got into the top of the atmosphere. Some think it came from outer space; others suspect that it originated...